39: Is This a Reference? (with Sylvia Sierra)
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Episode page with show notes: http://becauselanguage.com/39-is-this-a-reference/ Support the show on Patreon: http://patreon.com/join/becauselangpod/ You probably communicate with your friends using media references all the time. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But why do we include media references, when we could just talk? We’re having a media-heavy discussion with Dr Sylvia Sierra about her book Millennials Talking Media.
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